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    Unit 2

    LESSON 1: UNDERSTANDING
    LANGUAGE-IN-EDUCATION
    POLICY
    REPORTER:

    Karen Marata
    LEARNING GOALS
    At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
    identify the problems that arise from multilingualism
    and its impact to instruction;
    define language-in-education policy;
    differentiate overt from covert language policies; and
    reflect on the existing local language policies and
    practices.
    Pre-activity
    How would you describe
    How thethe language diversity of your
    would you describe

    language diversity? class based on the chart?

    What do you think are the advantages


    and disadvantages of a linguistically
    diverse or multilingual class?

    What do you think are the main


    challenges in dealing with a
    multilingual class?

    What do teachers do to overcome


    them?
    LANGUAGE IN
    EDUCATION POLICY
    Language-in-education policies are created to proactively
    ddress these problems.
    Kosonen and Young (2009) define language-in-education
    policy (LEP) as the "legislation on and practices pertaining
    to language or media of instruction and languages of
    literary used in basic education."

    LEP's primary concern is to decide on the medium of


    instruction that will be used in schools.
    Specifically, LEP addresses these issues:
    1. What languages should be used in schools?
    2. When do we start teaching these languages to
    children?
    3. How long should these languages be taught? How
    many years?
    4. How many hours? Who are qualified to teach? Who
    should learn these languages? How will it be taught?
    Language education policy and assessment Language
    policy in general an all-important decision of
    language education policy concerns the choice of
    medium of instruction (Tollefson 2008. 3) which
    determines the language(s) to be learn, for how much
    time, etc
    Language Education Policy (LEP) is the process
    through which the ideas, goals, and content of a
    language policy can be realized in education
    practices.
    OVERT AND COVERT
    LANGUAGE POLICY
    Schiffman (1996, in Shoham, 2006) classifies languages
    policies (LP) into two: covert and overt LPs.

    Overt LP- refer to those language policies that are


    explicit, formalized, de jure, codified, and manifest." It
    is sometimes called as top-down or explicit policy.

    Covert LP- refer to language policies that are implicit,


    informal, unstated, de facto, grass-roots, and latent;
    these covert policies are also known as bottom-up or
    implicit language policy.
    REFLECT ON THE EXISTING LOCAL LANGUAGE POLICIES
    AND PRACTICES
    Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligayanon, Ilokano. Pampango,
    pangasinense, Tagalog, and waray are just eight of the
    twelve regional languages spoken by more than a million
    people in the Philippines, despite the fact that the
    government of the country formally recognizes them all.

    These existing local languages have been adopted in


    education which are being used as their medium of
    teaching and delivering the curriculum to the students.
    THANK YOU
    Activity time!
    Reflective essay
    Read the article of Shohamy (2006).
    Based on your personal observations and readings,
    reflect on the questions provided.
    Write a 500 to 700-word reflective essay about
    your observations and realizations.
    Activity time!
    1. How is the language policy in the Philippines received
    by teachers, students, and parents?
    2. How is it practiced in public schools? In private
    schools?
    3. What do you think are the implementation challenges?
    4. What are the social, political, and economic
    implications of the existing language policy?
    Criteria for Grading the Reflective Essay:

    Depth of Reflection 15

    Organization of Ideas 5

    Language Use 5

    Adherence to Good Writing Conventions


    5
    Total: 30

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